How can I demonstrate the importance of accessibility to a client?
How could I convince a client that visually impaired customers might want to use his e-commerce website? I want to demonstrate the importance of accessibility and convince him that we should try to make it accessible so that people of all …
How to indicate that an image is a link too?
I have a section in my website called “Techonology” that is not part of the main content where I put the logos of each technology used in the website (PHP, MySQL, Bootstrap, etc). But I’m searching for a way to point to user that images ar…
Showing the status of an action on a button
I have an application that can synchronize content between a website and a social network.
with a button you can turn on and off the synchronization.
the user needs to see the status (sync on or off) and the action (turn th…
Do users really need to search through a tag page?
My video site offers full search functionality that searches based on title, description and tags.
I also have a category page that has 20+ categories to browse (each video is categorized as well as tagged).
I want to make a tag page th…
How can I differentiate Online products vs "Offline" products?
I’m helping redesign a website that has some products that can be purchased online and some which can only be purchased offline in physical stores.
Both the products you can buy and can’t buy need to be shown on the site, but how can I pre…
Would Breadcrumbs be effective if they incorporate Dropdowns?
I’m currently thinking about adding a quite comprehensive section to a website: the section I’m talking about starts at level 3 of the overall website and itself has another four structural levels. Massive!
I cannot use or touch the horizo…
Is there a difference between "blocked" and "banned"?
I’ve been requested to make a UI that allows to block/ban users from logging in. In the wireframes I’ve been provided, they use the term “blocked”. But I feel like a better term for this would be “banned”.
I feel like blocked means “there…
Should we be optimistic or pessimistic with UI updates on AJAX requests?
We are discussing in our team how best to handle UI updates after a user does something to cause an AJAX request to the server.
Here are options we are considering:
Instantly update the UI and add/update/remove the item that has been ch…
Extensive filtering on search results page
I’m just working on a quite complex interface. There are/will be tons of items in it and there is a massive search feature. Search is filterable just like on Ebay or Amazon etc. Filters are very complex (in fact different even by categorie…
What’s a better way to refer to an Intranet site?
I’ve found most of our users are totally unaware of the term, though it’s plastered on the front page of our Intranet site and the desktop icon they use to get to the site is labeled “(Company) Intranet”.
In fact many users I’ve met have …